Posted on 11/09/2006 1:41:30 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
However, one TownHall blogger [satire] writes:" I figured out how we can raise the minimum wage to $100 an hour!"
See: YouTUBE under addressed bold heading...
Pelosi said she will rush through an increase in the minimum wage to 7.50 an hour. The labor unions will adjust wages and will raise prices elsewhere.
Democrats on a whirlwind mission to make big and small business pay in their first few hours after taking control.
Still, the Nancy woman and her running dog lackeys are not at all interested in enforcing the minimum wage law on employers who hire illegal aliens.
Maybe they figure that the employers will need to hire illegals when they cannot afford to pay the new minimum wage.
You mean, like the vineyard her husband owns?
Will the last employer out of San Francisco please turn out the lights...
Dana Closing 8 Plants in North America
By JOHN SEEWER
AP
TOLEDO, Ohio (Nov. 9) - Auto parts maker Dana Corp. plans to close eight North American plants and reduce operations at three others, the company said Thursday in a regulatory filing.
Dana, which filed for bankruptcy protection in March, said it would cut health benefits for retirees and attempt to alter labor contracts at its unionized plants.
"Our existing labor costs, especially in the U.S., impair our financial position and are a significant impediment to a successful reorganization," the company said in the filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
It was not immediately clear what plants would be closed or how many jobs would be affected.
Dana, which sells brakes, axles and other parts to most major automakers, said in its bankruptcy filing that rising energy costs were driving up production costs and hurting demand for its customers' products.
A large slice of its business comes from three customers: Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp. and DaimlerChrysler AG.
http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/dana-closing-8-plants-in-north-america/n20061109152409990025?cid=403
It's in California, which means the Nancy woman and her husband own it together.
To liberals, this is an "investment". To normal people, it's an expense.
Very few jobs pay minimum wage, and there's this extraordinarily prevalent myth that people try to make a living on minimum wage. It really doesn't happen. While I think the minimum wage should be adjusted for inflation, raising it arbitrarily (as voters just did) amounts to nothing more than printing money. It affects more than just the minimum wage as you will see.
Coincidence?
SAN FRANCISCO 49ers say they are moving to Santa Clara.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/09/BAGNJM99FK1.DTL
I didn't realize the Niners were that cheap. Explains a lot though. :)
I work in San Francisco. I don't live in the city, since I ran for my life 7 years ago and moved to the leafy burbs.
Businesses are leaving here in droves. Major companies have moved to the suburbs, where parking is plentiful and employees don't have to step over passed-out vagrants to get to work.
San Francisco is a "transit first" city! That means they open a new downtown shopping complex with 200 stores...with NO PARKING.
Rent control is so severe that you can be prohibited from moving into your own property if a "protected class" tenant rents there. If you have a tenant over 65 who has lived in the unit for 10 years, you can NEVER evict the tenant.
If you do a legal eviction on a family of 3, you will have to pay them $16,000 to move. It's the law here.
According to the SF Small Property Owners group, there are an estimated 20,000 un-rented units in this city. Who wants a tenant from h*ll you can't get rid of?
This city is just under 50% white. But the schools are at 9% white. This is because almost all the white, middle class families with kids have already left. They are in the same suburbs I'm in, and the increase in suburban wealth and quality of life shows the result. All of SF's money is leaving.
The health care mandate is just one symbol of how this city has declined in the last 10 years. It's now run by the most extremist leftists in the country, who openly boast that "property is theft", and that the profits of business are immoral.
I'm happy to take the city's money, but I wouldn't live here for the world.
If you want a pretty city on the Pacific for a vacation, try Victoria, BC.
"Pelosi who owns non-union vineyards in Napa Valley where grape-picking depends chiefly on the availability of cheap foreign labor is doing everything she can to help open the floodgates to more illegal immigration. And she wants the American taxpayers to pay their way. As even more proof of this than I previously reported, Pelosi does not want employers like her to be required to pay the cost of illegal aliens hospital care. She voted against a bill that would make employers liable for the reimbursements if an undocumented employee seeks medical attention. And she voted in favor of rewarding illegal aliens from Mexico with Social Security benefits."
Peter Schweizer also notes in his best-selling expose of liberal hypocrisy, "Do As I Say (Not As I Do):
"The vineyard produces expensive grapes for high-end wines. Napa grapes bring up to $4,000 a ton compared with $300 a ton for, say, San Joaquin grapes.
Schweizer places Pelosi in a chapter titled "Workers of the World Unite Somewhere Else:
" UFW members need not apply at the Pelosi family vineyards."- INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY 10/31/2006
It would be interesting to know what wage the Pelosis pays their workers.
They are among the very few owners of Piatti (one is located in Mill Valley), a chain of Italian restaurants with 900 employees.
After Arizona just raised the minimum raise by referendum, I'm wondering what's to prevent the "people" from raising the minimum wage to $100? Or granting every Arizona $5,000 just for fun.
Awwww. . .poor thing. She has to work so hard. She works almost 40 hours per week!
It's been just over 10 years since Congress passed Rep. Nancy Pelosi's Presidio Trust legislation, effectively creating the first privatized national park in the United States. The results are pretty clear: Just cruise through the Presidio and check out the gigantic new office complex George Lucas has built. In fact, the private business interests that were given control of the park in 1995 now oversee more than 80 percent of the 1,408-acre parcel. The goal of the privatizers: raise enough money from development, leases, and other real estate deals to pay the entire cost of running the park by 2013.
That's what Pelosi's legislation requires said to be a terrible disaster for SF.
The Press, however, seems to be warm and fuzzy over Pelosi " The first woman................"(I can't say it out loud yet!)
In 1949, the minimum wage was .75c, adjusted for inflation it's about 8 bucks. Still - in 1949 there was no welfare to speak of, no WIC and the myriad of other social services available. So in some ways, people are much better off today.
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